This was the weekend that Alicia Keys and her fiancée Swizz Beatz were supposed to be married, according to random gossip. But it didn’t happen. Instead, they attended Russell Simmons’ Art for Life benefit in the Hamptons, and they looked miserable, right? Well, Alicia didn’t look bad, but Swizz looks like he’s already checked out. Maybe he was just having an off night. Or maybe he’s not trilled with the prospect of setting up house with Alicia and a baby. The NYDN points out that one of Swizz’s kids came to the event with them – and that Alicia was “very maternal” with 10-year-old Prince Nasir. Interesting. Alicia is really trying to make this thing work, and Swizz is just phoning it in? Maybe I’m being too harsh, because Swizz actually gushed about Alicia in an interview last week:

Yes, Alicia Keys and rapper Swizz Beatz are getting married and having a baby – but don’t believe rumors that they’ll tie the knot this weekend.

“The wedding is not this week,” Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean told PEOPLE at the New Music Seminar in New York City Wednesday night.

Shooting down online reports of a lavish ceremony to be held on a yacht, the rapper says, “People are very creative [with gossip], but it’s cool. We have fun with this stuff. [The rumors are that] we’re taking a boat to do this and we’re like, ‘Man, who’s paying for that?’” he jokes.

But rumors aside, the two musicians are focused on the impending birth of their first child together. “Alicia is definitely one of those great parents-to-be. I’m definitely one of those great parents as well,” says Swizz Beatz, who has two sons, Kasseem Jr., 3, and Prince Nasir, 9, from previous relationships.

So, will a son or daughter be joining the bunch? “We don’t know. We’re just going to let that be magical. Whatever we’re blessed with, boy, girl, twins, that baby is being born to blessed parents,” he said.

They may not know the gender of the baby – or babies – yet, but if Dean’s parenting is any indication, the child will grow up appreciating art like the rest of the family.

“[My sons] pick up things you least expect. You ask my 3-year-old, he’ll tell you [about Takashi] Murakami and [Jean-Michel] Basquiat. My oldest son Nasir is into all types of artists and he likes to write movies,” he says.

He adds: “My youngest son picked up Basquiat just because I have a video playing in my art studio. I did a portrait of him and I have photos. One day he pointed to a tattoo on my arm and goes, ‘Oh yeah, you have Basquiat on your arm,’ and I asked, ‘How do you know that?’ He’s like, ‘Duh! He’s only everywhere.’ ”

As for how Keys is preparing for her new role as mommy, Swizz Beatz says, “She’s super ready. Super calm. Super glowing. Super positive. Super happy.”

Eh. Do we want to take bets on Alicia and Swizz’s relationship, or is that too rude? My guess is that Alicia will get Swizz down the aisle, and they’ll be together for the birth and for the first few months with the baby, but it will go downhill very fast.

He’s like any other guy who’s like that with their baby mommas and relationships. That stuff happens in real life. I’m sure he gushed about Alicia the way he gushed about his ex wife. But you see, like that theory goes…(guys are like bulls and they get tired of “f*cking” the same cow, so they move on to the next cow). They go through women like wiping their butt with toilet paper. Well, not all men are like that, but most. Cause some women can be like that too. He’s probably already getting tired of her, or he just doesn’t want too much attention, knowing he did wrong. And probably when the baby comes along, she’ll be doing all or most of the work and he isn’t going to want to help her…that’s if they don’t hire a nanny or rely on “extra help.”

I don’t know much about them. But this is just another example of building a story around a picture.

I remember that there was an actual article where tabloids “reporters” admitted that they select a picture to put in the magazine or on the cover.then they all sit around and decide what story the picture tells. They then search for quotes and such that support the picture. Never caring if the comments or quotes are current or true. So post an unflattering picture or a picture that is out of context and create a story around it. That is how the game works. Sad that people are still buying ticket to this crap.

They are probably doing just fine. Alicia seems very happy with impending motherhood.

Gettin married just because you’re knocked up isnt the answer to having a successful relationship. When will women understand this. Swizz Beatz is not gona change, not even for Alicia Keys. He is gona cheat on her just like he cheated on his former wife. Alicia better wake up to what she’s getting herself into.

I don’t know if you guys just don’t listen to hip-hop or what. He is absolutely loaded. He has been making beats and producing music for everyone in the business FOREVER! They seem happy so who are we to judge? In my experience most beautiful women tend to go for men who are not so physically beautiful

One day after the rose colored glasses wear off, she is gonna look at him and go “Damn he’s hard on the eye’s he looks just like “Squidward” from “Spongebob Squarepants”, and to think I might of had kids with this fug…… ooohh snap!”

I just can’t see this working out. Anyone who would have an affair while married, then get his mistress pregnant, then dump his wife and get engaged to the pregnant mistress…how is this good? He doesn’t look happy…like he accidentally got Alicia Keyes pregnant, and now has to go the whole 9, when he was never planning to in the first place! Ugh! They’ll be through in no time!

Great comment Andrea; I watched the Humpty Dance vid on youtube and it said everything that’s wrong with todays rap/hip hop which everyone knows is lousy. Humpty Dance was fun silly stuff not to be taken too seriously unlike Switzz Beatz whose stuff is crap compared to old school 80s early 90s rap/hip hop. He’s big in the game, but nobody’s going to call his stuff classic 20-30 years from now.

I think this relationship is a set up. Think back to Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown. I think the real reason they got married and had a baby, was because of the gay rumors that were surrounding Whitney at the time. It is common knowledge that Alicia Keys is rumored to be gay. I think her record label is trying to cover this up with this Swizz Beatz relationship and now a baby. Clyde Davis did the same thing with Whitney.

It’s annoying that on the basis of a few pictures people are so sure they are fighting and about to breakup. Not smiling doesn’t mean misery. Besides they’re smiling in all of the photos, but not at the same time.

people in this business do not stay loyal, trust this, i predicted Christina milian and the dream break up when she was showing off that Hugh ring, now after the baby and nine months later, the marriage is over, been there done that.

Luckily, Ive never had a shotgun in the form of incoming foetal action held to my head, (being a western woman, I’ve always had a choice about procreating, thank christ) but hell, I can imagine that it isn’t the world’s best feeling and I bet it’s a passionkiller too. When I look at them I think ‘oooh’, and wince a bit.
Sometimes getting everything you thought you wanted at the time doesn’t work out so great, eh Alicia?

even though they got together under suspicious circumstances i do not wish bad things for them, life is hard enough, he and she do have feelings and will have enough problems, so… good luck to them and their new family, i hope everyone involved heals, including the family he left behind.

Apparently Mr Beatz has a FOURTH baby mama (or, technically, she’s the 3rd and Alicia Keys is the 4th) that was proven thru a paternity test. That Keys attended with him. I guess she’s one of those women who think her kid is the only one that’ll count?

Swizz Beats has more money than Alicia Keys, if anything she would get MONEY FROM HIM not the other way. He has been making hits for artists for years. Since the early 90′s when I was a teen. He still is. The man is rich beyond means.

Keys maybe has 70 million.

While Kaseem (Swizz) has 300 million or more. Dude has his own helicopter and jet. If anything Alicia is going to get bank from being the wife, and Swizz is VERY RESPECTED in the industry.

Did you know there have been reports since 2007, that Jay-Z has a child that looks just like him (Poor Kid) and he refuses to take care of him? The woman even offered a paternity test and Jay refused, if you look at his picture he is a DEAD RINGER for Joe Camel.

The woman from the UK NEVER could prove Swizz was the father. So in reality he has two children and one on the way. Thats all. How is AK the fourth baby mama? She isnt. She will be his second marriage and their child is the third one for him. So yeah three kids by three diffrent women, but he isnt a deadbeat.

I love this site but you need to do better research. Oh and a picture dosen’t tell a story, and AK is 5 months pregnant I really doubt she isn’t irritable because its hot in the summer and she has to carry a baby in her belly. One of my friends is miserable being pregnant, due to morning sickness, her back etc but she isnt in the spotlight.

Swizz is NO K-Fed. He gets so much money off peoples albums, and he is producing more. He charges like 2 million a beat for a song. Dude has never slowed down he started at 19. If he signed a prenup with Keys, its for his OWN protection not hers.

I have one thing also to say. Swizz spoke Candidly about his divorce and Alicia. He said that people are making a big deal out of what happens every day. He said Him and Mashonda were fine, until her career (With the help of his beats and big artists) didn’t take off she became bitter.

That all day long when he was out working (In his words for other artists) she wouldn’t do anything but sit on the couch, and when he got home she was busy looking through his phone and credit card reciepts. He said MANY times she would fine nothing, and stil be screaming at him. Then he was working with AK and they were friends, and things started to take off after years of knowing each other. He said he went to Mashonda/She also said that part was true, that he was in love with someone else and didn’t want to stay with her anymore.

He said the last straw was her making him choose between his 10 year old son and her. He basically alluded the reason WHY he feels that Keys is his soulmate because “She gets it” that she has her own thing going on, and he wants someone on his level. Not a stay at home insecure wife. (Youtube has the whole interview up its like 3 minutes) If you go to Youtube you can see Mashonda videos and she CANT Sing, all she did was basically prance around naked and STILL didn’t get her anywhere. While neither is blameless AK or Swizz its better for everybody to move on. Just like with Brangelina and Aniston. Nobody knows the REAL WHOLE story on any of it so sites like Bossip harping on it makes them stupid.